By Merritt Hughes, Dept. Campus Editor
/ January 29, 2025
Starting this semester, Emerson students and faculty have the opportunity to apply for research grants funded through $1.5 million left to Marlboro College...
Gazing out at Marlboro College for the first time, Maya Abarca remembers seeing white buildings scattered over rolling hills—all of it nearly camouflaged...
By Bailey Allen, Former news editor
/ November 29, 2021
Interim President William Gilligan published his first State of the College report on Tuesday detailing the college’s accomplishments over the course...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor
/ October 14, 2021
Almost all of the former faculty and students of Marlboro College have not set foot on their idyllic Potash Hill campus since the onset of the pandemic...
By Katie Redefer, Former Staff Writer
/ March 19, 2021
The past 12 months may have been the most unprecedented year of our lifetime. The first pandemic of the 21st century transformed life as we knew it in...
By Jacob Seitz, Former Staff Writer
/ March 11, 2021
Democracy Builders will retain control of the former Marlboro College campus, according to its founder Seth Andrew, after it was purportedly sold to Vermont-based...
By Jacob Seitz, Former Staff Writer
/ February 5, 2021
Type 1 Civilization Academy will take over the former Marlboro College campus from Democracy Builders, according to documents obtained by The Beacon, with...
Sarah-May Schultz’s first visit to the old Marlboro College campus, tucked away in the hills of rural Vermont, came when she was just 38 days old. Eighteen...
By Jacob Seitz, Former Staff Writer
/ July 24, 2020
The Marlboro community raised more questions about the allegations of racism against Democracy Builders, the organization that purchased the Marlboro College...
The college confirmed Thursday that the Emerson-Marlboro deal is now finalized after the Vermont Attorney General approved the agreement Monday.
“This...
By Jacob Seitz, Former Staff Writer
/ July 20, 2020
The Emerson-Marlboro deal received final approval from the Vermont Attorney General’s office Monday, the last hurdle in an eight-month merger process...
By Jacob Seitz, Former Staff Writer
/ July 17, 2020
Despite mounting allegations of racism against the Democracy Builders founder, the sale of the Marlboro campus to the non-profit cannot be stopped by the...
Dan Daly is a graduate of Marlboro College residing in Camden, Maine.
It seems like writing at this juncture about Marlboro College is a bit like that...
By Jacob Seitz, Former Staff Writer
/ June 27, 2020
The Marlboro College Board of Trustees officially approved The Emerson-Marlboro merger on Friday, Marlboro President Kevin Quigley said in a Zoom meeting...
By Jacob Seitz, Former Staff Writer
/ June 14, 2020
Marlboro College students attending Emerson as a part of the proposed Emerson-Marlboro merger will lose the Marlboro tuition rate guarantee and housing...
By Jacob Seitz, Former Staff Writer
/ May 16, 2020
Emerson College will receive only an estimated $22 million out of the estimated $27 million of Marlboro College’s endowment when the Emerson-Marlboro...
By Jacob Seitz, Former Staff Writer
/ April 24, 2020
When I was looking to transfer out of my tiny liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio—a town east of Dayton with a population just shy of Emerson’s...
By Jacob Seitz, Former Staff Writer
/ April 7, 2020
The Emerson-Marlboro merger remains on its initially scheduled timeline despite the COVID-19 outbreak that forced both colleges to move classes online,...